Senior Accountant - Outsourced Accounting Services (Special Projects)

EisnerAmper • Baton Rouge, LA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

EisnerAmper is seeking a Senior Accountant for its Outsourced Accounting team, focusing on special projects. This role is crucial for supporting clients' financial operations and accounting processes across various sectors. The Senior Accountant will be responsible for maintaining accurate financial records, assisting with month-end close, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and collaborating with teams and clients for timely financial reporting and decision-making support. This is a hybrid position requiring presence in the local office or client location as needed, with availability to work within Eastern and/or Central time zones.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
• 3+ years of relevant accounting or auditing experience or within an outsourced accounting team
• Ability to learn and understand new concepts, workflows, and software applications.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
• Perform effectively, efficiently and with quality under tight deadlines and manages multiple priorities.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Professionally and appropriately communicates with a diverse group of individuals.
• Demonstrate a positive attitude, proactive nature, and be receptive to feedback.
• Exhibit professionalism and maintain the highest level of confidentiality.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and within a team environment.
• Technically proficient with the capability of performing at an intermediate or advanced level with respect to the Microsoft Office Suite of products (specifically Excel, and Word, Outlook).

Nice To Haves

• CPA or pursuing CPA certification

Responsibilities

• Assist the team through all phases of a client engagement including work planning, mobilization, execution, and closeout consistent with established program delivery processes to meet the scope, schedule, budget, and other contract requirements.
• Ensure that the scope of work is completed to the satisfaction of the client and key stakeholders, while simultaneously ensuring that quality, financial, risk management, business and policy expectations are met.
• Communicate and work on a variety of assignments potentially including progress and status, scope, schedule, and budget as well as progress of deliverables, client reviews, technical input, and comment resolution.
• Ensure compliance with applicable policies and procedures, laws and regulations, and keeps current on compliance-related areas.
• Perform research for technical accounting issues as appropriate; formulates resolution of issues identified through the research process.
• May provide on-site, virtual or augmented business services for client.
• Participate in the preparation of deliverables/reports for review that include any noted issues, trends and other micro/macro level risks identified through the execution of activities.
• Provide support on other consulting projects, as necessary.
• Proactively communicates any issues/concerns relating to assignments.
• Prepares for relevant certification exams until completed and maintains the required CPE for firm and licensing requirements.

Benefits

• Flexibility to manage your days in support of our commitment to work/life balance.
• Culture that has received multiple top “Places to Work” awards
• Opportunity to make a lasting impact on the business and its direction.
• Voice to bring new ideas to the table, backed by the confidence, expertise, and global reach of the larger firm.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior